About #BLM B-town

#BLM B-town is a black lead space

Black Lives Matter B-town is announcing its reformation and reboot with new core council members as well as an amended structure that includes new goals for the 2019 calendar year. This new BLM B-town consists of many progressive black activist leaders supported by progressive activist non-black identifying people of color and white members. The local chapter of #BLM is committed to bringing the group in line with the Guiding Principles outlined by the national Black Lives Matter organization. To that end, we are creating new working agreements, projects, committees, and ways of looking at local issues that concern BLM and the black, brown, and progressive communities.​​To see more about BLM B-town's reboot view our press release click here

Core Council

The rebooted 6 person Core Council consist of local black community leaders, many of whom work intimately, academically and socially with issues of social justice and race. Our council is in the process of expanding and will be welcoming more black activists to our Core Council soon.

Guiding Principles of #BLM B-town

The 13 Guiding Principles taken from BLM National Guiding Principles

Black Families -Supporting, nurturing, and helping to redefine what is a modern black family

Unapologetically Black - In our positioning with no need to qualify or explain

#BLM B-town's Mission Statement

Thank you for joining #BlackLivesMatter in solidarity and allyship. Allow us this moment to elaborate on the strategy, and mission of #BlackLivesMatter, both internationally and locally.The decentralization of leadership in the BLM movement by its nature allows for a myriad of tailored approaches to be used; encompassed by a single focused slogan, #Black Lives Matter. Public disruption, engaging in both public and private discourse with elected/appointed officials, meeting with candidates, and local organizing are essential elements of the BLM national strategy; we have opted to utilize them locally. Our tactics will continuously evolve to attain our objectives and counter the challenges of opposition.​The overarching goals of our direct-action tactics are to disrupt the routine, perforate complacency, upend the status quo; evoke the uncomfortablity necessary to elicit fruitful confrontation of our community's issues. Though, often perceived as radical or controversial, these are the same tried and true tactics employed by previous peoples’ liberation struggles. We can look to leaders such as King, Malcolm, and our founders and contemporaries as proofs for the effectiveness of direct-action techniques.The Bloomington BLM chapter is devoted to dismantling the untenable systemic oppression of black and other marginalized people; confronting the institutional racism that allows such conditions to persist and indeed flourish, and to create a more equitable society.

BLM is a black space, lead predominantly by people of color, and we ask that our allies be mindful of the scrutiny black movements encounter from all aspects of society. If we are going to build political power, we have to build connections rooted in the goal of creating positive intersectional outcomes for our entire community. It is our adamant intention to honor the spirit of our mission, while exercising respect for values and tenets of our individual coalition members and the groups they collectively represent.